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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the oldest and largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end-of-life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

News and Information on Hospice and Palliative Care:

NHPCO's Facts & Figures on Hospice Care in America. - Released 10/02/2017, this is the new version of our report (the 2016 edition) reflecting 2015 data. NHPCO research team is using a new methodology with the primary data source being CMS hospice claims data included in the hospice standard analytical file Limited Data Set. A 2017 edition will be released early in 2018, also based on the new process for data analysis.

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NHPCO offers free resources on a variety of end-of-life issues to people via our Caring Connections Web site and InfoLine. To help people learn more about these issues or to find a hospice, palliative care or other local resources, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization encourages media outlets and other organizations to cite or link to these public resources: